Daniel D. Barnard, Representative From New York, 1843 old N America map The New Cathedral

The New Cathedral

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 — a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry

the soldier still visible beneath the statesman

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

Daniel D. Barnard, Representative From New York, 1843 old N America map The New CathedralDaniel D. Barnard, Representative From New York, 1843 a Whig portrait engraving of the Albany lawyer and orator at mid career in the House, his likeness drawn in the measured line reserved for men who believed the Union could be argued into permanence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers